Politicians these days do pay pollsters to optimize their messaging. They let their pollsters run focus groups to find out what the public wants to hear.
Politicians raise money from lobbyists to be able to pay for their pollsters to know what to say, to get the public to like them. For better or worse it’s not the problem of US politics that politicians have to depend on the media to understand what the public thinks.
No, we live in the 21st century.
Politicians these days do pay pollsters to optimize their messaging. They let their pollsters run focus groups to find out what the public wants to hear.
Politicians raise money from lobbyists to be able to pay for their pollsters to know what to say, to get the public to like them. For better or worse it’s not the problem of US politics that politicians have to depend on the media to understand what the public thinks.